Word: dispatches
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...rebellion had got so out of hand that the British either had to clear out of Ireland, dispatch a considerable military force or negotiate. They chose negotiation. A truce was called and de Valera sent five men to London to talk peace. They signed late that year a treaty establishing dominion status for Ireland, but permitting the six predominantly Protestant northern counties to withdraw...
...long, two-fisted, crusading record has the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Back in 1883, four years after the late, great Joseph Pulitzer created it, Managing Editor John A. Cockerill shot and killed a man who called the Post-Dispatch a gang of blackmailers. Under famed Managing Editor Oliver Kirby ("O. K.") Bovard, who retired two years ago, the Post-Dispatch tore into municipal corruption whenever it could be found, in 1937 won a Pulitzer Prize for exposing election frauds. Last week the Post-Dispatch was again in the fray...
...Leslie Hore-Belisha, a faithful disciple of Captain Liddell Hart, was supposed to presage an Allied swing to the offensive. But up until last week the Allied High Command had shown no signs of turning away from Liddell Hart orthodoxy. And last week, in a North American Newspaper Alliance dispatch, the Captain himself showed that nothing in the war's first half-year had changed his mind. His thoughts about a spring offensive...
...dispatch from Beirut, Syria reported that General Maxime Weygand had during the winter not only whipped into shape the Allied Army of the East, but also read and finished Gone With the Wind...
...following is quoted from an AP dispatch of several days ago: "Shaw's marriage to Lana Turner last night had all Hollywood baffled . . . They reportedly had not addressed a civil word to each other throughout the filming of their recent picture . . . Lana Turner, who has been engaged for three years to a Hollywood script writer, notified her "flance" of her marriage to Shaw by telephone . . . after the ceremony. She said, 'While on our way to a party we started discussing marriage, and decided we wanted to get married...